Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Excluding directories for restore

[Dominik Sandjaja]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 10:05 -0800 schrieb Adrian Klaver:

> >> --exclude '**var/customers/web1'
> >
> > it really is that simple, thanks! Although I understand the meaning of
> > ** I am a little confused why that matches and to what exactly it
> > expands to. But for now I am just happy. :-)
>
> '**' is a wild card that includes '/' so by doing '**var/customers/web1' 
>   you are really expanding to /home/backup/var/customers/web1 which is 
> the full path of the directory you wanted to exclude.

yes, I get the wildcard pattern, but why does
 --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1
not work:
$> rdiff-backup -r 02-02-2010 \
   --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 \
   /home/backup/var/customers server::/var/customers
Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8

[...]

Fatal Error: Fatal Error: The file specification
    '/home/backup/var/customers/web1'
cannot match any files in the base directory
    '/var/customers/'

That's why I would be interested in the actual expansion of ** and how
to write it without wildcards. And yes, it's more out of interest than
of practical usage now :-)

Thanks
Dominik